1997
Diana, Princess of Wales killed in car crash in Paris

1994
The IRA agreed to a complete ceasefire after 25 years

1989
Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips were separating after 16 years of marriage

1969
Death of Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight boxing champion

1945
Robert Menzies founded the Liberal Party of Australia.

1939
World War II: Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, signed an order to attack Poland. German troops began massing on the Polish border

1928
The first performance of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s ‘The Threepenny Opera’, at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin.

1928
Birth of James Coburn, American actor .

1920
Radio station 8MK in Detroit broadcast the first ever news bulletin on Radio.

1918
Birth of Alan Jay Lerner, American songwriter and lyricist .

1908
Birth of William Saroyan, American novelist and playwright .

1809
Death of Jean Lannes, French military leader under Napoleon
